Posted on 03/01/2017 12:37:36 AM PST by Morgana
They used those at work. I’ve no great love for rodents (had my share of squirrel potpie) but I couldn’t stand to listen to the little buggers squealing when they got caught. I resorted to putting a paper towel over them and crushing their heads to get it over with.
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Too get rid of rodents and all the bugs hire a professional strength ozone machine and put in in for a few hours. EVERYTHING will be dead including smells and mold.
We keep a small ozone machine going in the tree house and it stays pest free.
Finding a black mamba is rare (in Nairobi nowadays the only snakes that can be found are in the snake park ...impossible to find a snake in Nairobi for almost two decades now), but when you drive far out and get to the bush there are some. However, there are things worse than mambas. Not as venomous, but the type of venom is really damaging to tissue (unlike mamba venom that is really toxic, but it works by paralyzing your muscles and you stop breathing ...and if they give you antivenin in time, or in old days put you in an iron lung, you’ll make it out okay. In the bush you die, but in a hospital that is well stocked you’ll be okay). But a bite from a puff adder, a gaboon viper or any type of spitting cobra ...they will muck up your tissue.
Great ideas, thanks!
Thanks for the ideas. The units aren’t sealed off from one another. There’s a gap along the top edge of all the walls. So rodent bombs, sulphur and the like are out.
Respirators are the way to go and I’ve been looking into it. They have to be rated for Hantavirus. Moon suits, too. You don’t want that crap getting on your clothes, and then breathing it in when you take them off.
My brother-in-law wanted to clean it up for us using a painter’s respirator and no other protection. I wouldn’t let him. Last thing I need is my BIL dying doing something for us that I’m not willing to do myself.
It’s going to have to be professionals, I think. I went to the CDC website and read all their recommendations, bleach solutions, etc. But this is too big of a job. I need professionals.
Flood with ozone? Wetting with Lysol, alcohol, ordinary disinfectants, household bleach, (fat solvents) kills the virus. Use appropriate protective clothing, boots, goggles, and respirator. And, don’t forget about treating for fleas possibly carrying plague.
No easy way to seal them?
Moon suits, too. You don’t want that crap getting on your clothes, and then breathing it in when you take them off.
Like these ?
These inexpensive suits can also be useful.
No, unfortunately. This is a huge storage unit. The biggest one they have. I'd guess 70 feet deep, 10'-12' wide, and 12' to 15' high. There's a six inch gap at the top. So I'd have to try to seal a six inch gap that's 150 linear feet in length, all the while crawling around on the top of boxes that are carpeted in mouse poop! Not even when I was a young man!
WOW! An ounce of prevention is now worth much more than a pound of cure. .
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